Maybe Marilyn

“Lois Cahall brings her signature intelligence and wit to a timeless tale of a woman losing control of her own narrative amidst a media firestorm. What follows is a luminous novel about resilience, reinvention, and a whimsical ‘what-if’ journey.” – Elizabeth Beller, New York Times bestseller of Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy
“There is a nostalgia…a Sinatra ring-a-ding-ding feel to Cahall’s novel seaming a delicate balance of past to present. It’s the love story we all would have wished for Marilyn Monroe.” – Renee Rosen, Bestselling Author of Let’s Call Her Barbie
“A novel about a sweet and sad story: What if Marilyn Monroe ran away from Hollywood and lived a long life by the ocean among books and flowers?” – Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Bird Watcher & The Deep End of the Ocean
“Lois Cahall turns the mystery of Marilyn Monroe’s death into a thrilling page-turner that challenges all we believe about Hollywood’s most glamorous star and the power of glamour itself.” – Jan Tuckwood, AARP contributing writer and author of the forthcoming Dressing Jackie
“Maybe Marilyn does for the ‘what-if’ genre what Marilyn Monroe did for movie starlets: she defines it. Before the #Metoo movement had a name, Marilyn embodied strength and sensuality. She paid a terrible price, but what if her suicide was faked? With a host of supporting characters, Cahall illustrates the stark differences between Hollywood and a quiet New England town, and asks the question: what must a woman do to rewrite the script she was given?” – Christopher Shaw Myers, author of Robert Shaw: An Actor’s Life on The Set of JAWS

Lois Cahall is the author of The Many Lives and Loves of Hazel Lavery, The Court of the Myrtles, and Plan C: Just in Case (Bloomsbury). Plan C was a #1 bestseller in the UK and remained in the top three for fiction in 2012.

Lois spent her early career writing women’s, men’s, food, and travel articles for Hearst and Condé Nast publications. She is the former creative director of development for James Patterson Entertainment and the founder of both the Cape Cod Book Festival (2024) and the Palm Beach Book Festival (2015). Both festivals bring in New York Times bestselling authors.

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